Interview. Jon Else.

If you're anywhere near Chicago over the holidays, you might consider catching Doctor Atomic at the Lyric Opera. Composed by John Adams, with a libretto by director Peter Sellars, Doctor Atomic is an intense countdown to the very first test of the nuclear bomb - in short, the dawn of a new age.

The making of the opera was not without its drama, either. That story's told by Jon Else in Wonders Are Many. Brian Darr talks with him about revisiting the themes of his widely lauded The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb and about why Wonders would make for a good double feature with his friend Steven Okazaki's doc, White Light/Black Rain.

Posted by dwhudson at December 3, 2007 3:35 PM